Abstract
This article deals with the problem of detecting a marine target with coherent radars in a correlated heavy-tailed sea clutter background. The heavy-tailed sea clutter is modeled by a compound-Gaussian model, and the clutter texture is characterized by the lognormal distribution with a new parameterization form. We develop an adaptive coherent detector on the basis of the two-step generalized likelihood ratio test. The proposed detector can achieve adaptation to sea clutter characteristics by using the maximum a posterior estimate of the clutter texture, the constrained approximate maximum likelihood estimator of the speckle covariance matrix, and the proposed negative- and positive-fractional moment estimate of amplitude parameters of sea clutter. Remarkably, the proposed detector inherently ensures a constant false alarm rate with respect to the clutter power mean and the speckle covariance matrix. Finally, numerical experiments using simulated data and real radar data demonstrate that the proposed estimator and adaptive coherent detector outperform their respective competitors.
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